I'm designing an ornamental font for creating patterns. Every glyph is a tile that when repeated creates a pattern.
I've set the UPM at 1000 and generated a CFF-flavored OTF file.
When I use it in MS Word (haven't tried other applications), every few tiles (letters) there's a little overlap between two adjacent tiles, as if Word places the next tile a little closer to the previous one instead of at the exact position, and the pattern goes out of synchronization.
Is it because of some rounding mechanism?
Is there anything I can do about it?
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I didn't try it in Indesign (I don't have Indesign).
It's not a screen rendering issue. I didn't try to print, but I did export to PDF and inspect the border closely. The glyph isn't placed at the exact position, no doubt about that (see the attached file).
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On further inspection, the problem seems to appear only in certain sizes. At 24 points I see no problem; at 22.5 I do.
Also, it turns out that the same problem appears in the vertical axis as well (not surprising, I guess).
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See the attached file.
(Does anyone have another pattern font that we can check?)
Do you see the same issue at other pt sizes?
Thanks for your print experiment!